Manuscripts by Ira J. Bach include: "New Illinois-Indiana Bi-State Commission: What It's All About," speech, 1975 (photocopy); article, "Cities: Their Value and Survival," 1977; draft of "The Choice is Yours: A Case for Urban Survival," 1976; draft of "A New Race to the Suburbs," 1969; "The Keys to 2076: Urban America at the Tricentennial," n.d.; "From the Eye of the Urban Storm," n.d.; and "Public Sculpture in Chicago."